Seth Holladay

A human seeking a full stack of pancakes and software, bug free. Cofounder & CTO @noirdoor. Replay Avenue, Sitecues, etc.

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@lacker You’re being generous, frankly. All the frontier models are now “escaping the lab” within weeks of each other. Seems, eh, not accidental. Doing risky things appears to be a business strategy.

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So your agents make no mistakes or omissions? They never hallucinate, bluff, or use outdated techniques? They’re able to build production systems on their own? Sounds awesome. Where can I get one of those?

If we’re done with the era of teaching people how to program, then we’re also done with the era of people being able to review and fix the output of agents.

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@nikitabier Bring back the macOS app

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I’m a big proponent of local-first software, but just as many people have Netflix instead of a movie collection, I think this will unfortunately not be very common. Primarily because local models will be bad at crawling the web. Fast, highly parallelized, capable web search is a superpower only really available to cloud models. And I don’t see a simple way around that.

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@hamdymohamedak Hi. What’s up?

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What are the top features/bugfixes you’d like to see in the next Ky release? #javascript #fetch
https://t.co/bhMok3LTAI

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@SnazzyLabs But Quinn, they support Spatial Audio and Dolby Atmos! They must be terrific!

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@SnazzyLabs @bennyjohnson @KidRock Also, look at the sales numbers for vinyl records. It’s pretty wild.

https://t.co/AiHGkKiCP8

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@SnazzyLabs @bennyjohnson @KidRock Take a fresh look at the subscription prices and whether you have more than one. Add up how much you’ve actually spent. You can probably buy an album every single month and still save money. It’s gotten out of hand. I’ve started buying movies and TV shows again.

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@eastdakota @RealAnkush @flydotio @awscloud @Cloudflare I would host a lot more on Cloudflare if you offered long-lived servers, like EC2, as opposed to just workers and functions. Any chance?

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Project Farm had good things to say about their performance right when I needed a new vacuum. I bought one and wow. It does perform very well when brand new and looks cool but it’s terrible in every single other way that matters. Ergonomics, build quality, leaky seals, no retractable cord… I cannot think of many expensive products that get away with this level of awfulness. It’s up there with the old, non-braided MagSafe cables.

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Sure, yet all of those new 10X AI developers have lost the ability to understand and reason about their code, without help from the same technology that created it. So many people are now blindly committing slop to git. It’s only a matter of time until someone vibe codes a password manager and it gets popular because of a pretty UI.

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Going over time estimates is unfortunately normal in the software industry, because programming is mostly problem solving. That alone doesn’t mean the software will be bad or that it’s not worth some extra time. However, doubling the budget is a very serious error. You should negotiate a reduced scope of work with a delivery date of 6 months or less and additional payment of no more than $20k. It’s important to get something in hand. Don’t make the mistake of trying to switch to a different agency. Prefer to trade your scope of work for delivery. More money doesn’t necessarily make a project go faster. And you want to prevent it from dragging on.

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@kartik_builds You want to represent errors with null? In others words, you don’t care about what the error actually is and don’t feel like communicating it to the user. The worst kinds of systems are those that silently fail.

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@tahirdibirov @TanmayMishu @rough__sea https://t.co/jZ9bBjEN3s

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Very little of what exists on Earth is actually rare in the universe. Not water, nor even gold. It’s just a matter of finding an object with the right combination and setup. We’ve detected possible biosignatures (evidence of life) on Mars. So soon you may have to adjust your stance to “I assume our solar system is unique”. No, it probably isn’t.

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@SnazzyLabs @this_is_beto I find that mine usually aren’t actually dead, they’re in some kind of deep sleep mode that is very stubborn. Need to do a reset (hold both buttons for like 15 seconds) to wake them up. That’s the only thing about them that really bothers me.

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I’m assuming the heavy lifting happens once during setup but I’ll ask anyway: What if my partner is using and charging the vehicle while I’m away? What if they don’t have the app? What if my phone is off during the scheduled time and the rates have changed?

I think there should be one or more schedules and they should depend on the vehicle’s location. One could be home, another could be work, etc.

When the vehicle goes into park, it should check its location to decide which schedule to apply. Then later, when it wakes up to charge, it should check again (just in case the vehicle was towed or something) and then charge if it makes sense according to the schedule’s settings, and the latest TOU rates if the schedule wants that. For example, my home schedule could be to charge at night based on TOU rates, but my work schedule could be to charge between 3pm-5pm, with TOU ignored, so I’m ready for the commute without leaving the battery at a high state of charge all day.

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@beekeeperdata you make SQL a joy to use ❤️

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@zeeg No magic, agreed. Pattern matching, agreed. But to say that it doesn’t “know” anything just because you have to feed it data… well, that doesn’t distinguish it from a human. We, too, need to be fed data.